Local Architecture Now Coast Access Radio

Michael Anistasidis discusses mortgage finance, especially for First Home Buyers. He is a Registered Mortgage Advisor / Mortgage Broker and part of Bozinoff Mortgages and Insurance. Michael clearly and simply, in straightforward language, describes the important work of property finance for his clients, particularly First Home buyers and those requiring ‘top-up’ loans for additions and alterations to existing dwellings. Michael’s understanding of this country’s property market and the current housing landscape is underpinned with a commitment to service for people’s need for a home and the ability to finance it. Broad brush discussion on Aotearoa New Zealand’s current housing issues and the cycles of the market and an optimism toward the kinds of questions we need to ask of the collective challenges ahead of us.

contact Michael at https://www.michaelmortgageman.co.nz/

Economist Mary Hedges, fundraising manager for the restoration of Christ Church in Ellerslie, discusses the ‘hook’ that enabled their highly successful fundraising campaign for this historic restoration.

The hook: stained glass windows donated by foremost, Victorian stained-glass designer and fabricator Alfred Bell of Clayton and Bell. Mary clearly understood every element of the design report by heritage architects Salmond Reed Architects, to inform their funding application.
This is an exciting adventure of local history, involving Albin Martin, one of the founders of the church and considered ‘The Father of Art’ in Auckland.

Rosalind Derby of Rosalind Derby Architecture, interviews colleagues across the construction industry, discussing architecture and building, urban design, public space design. Buildings mediate between people and their environment. Todays guest is:

This episode Ros talks with Giles Keating, current Owner of Athelhampton - one of the oldest Tudor manors in England, dated 1485 and pre-1066.

Giles describes his restoration work and their Athelhampton Zero project with Spase Ltd Architects and Surveyors. As a team together, client and architect provided an award-winning conversion of a Grade 1 listed estate into becoming carbon neutral.
Listen here for stories of their restoration of the huge kitchen hearth, writer Thomas Hardy’s deep association with the house after his career as an architect, the house as film location and sharing carbon neutral power installation expertise with Hampton Court consultants.

Athelhampton Manor is open to visitors year round. visit https://www.athelhampton.com

More information can be found at Space architects website https://www.spase.co.uk/portfolio/athelhampton-zero/

Paula Clarke of Go Architecture in Lower Hutt discusses the business of architecture. Her excellent design studio is managed with well-considered systems and structure, achieving an optimum working environment for her team. The space supports high quality communication with her clients, colleagues, consultants and contractors. Business and communication systems and a well-designed office environment support her delivery of high-quality architecture.

Rosalind Derby of Rosalind Derby Architecture, interviews colleagues across the construction industry, discussing architecture and building, urban design, public space design. Buildings mediate between people and their environment.

Our ‘Christmas Special’ with Aidan Hart, world-renowned iconographer:
https://aidanharticons.com/
Aidan designed the ‘Tree of Life’ embroidered panel for the anointing at King Charles III Coronation.
He discusses the design of Islamic and Christian cathedrals, including Saint Sophia in Istanbul; & good procurement processes for public architecture and urban design.

This exciting interview is with Brendan Macfarlane, who with his partner Dominique Jakob, runs Jakob + Macfarlane architecture | urbanism | design | research, a multidisciplinary and multicultural architecture agency based in Paris, France. Visit their amazing work at http://www.jakobmacfarlane.com/en

Brendan will excite you with his evocative discussion of their venture near Cairo Egypt for a new 5000 student university. He discusses desert shadow and geometry and the intimacy of sub-ground tombs, as his archeological context.

They also won the competition C40 Reinventing Cities May 2019. Calling it the Energy Plug, this was to be a gateway building for the Paris Olympics 2024.